Capirossi had been an impressive fourth fastest during Saturday morning's final free practice session and believes he is 'one of the best' on
Bridgestone race tyres.
"I think that if we look at our grid position it is not too good, but we are quite happy with the performance on race tyres," said the Italian. "We are one of the best - if not the best - on Bridgestone race tyres on the track today and for sure tomorrow it will be harder to start on the fourth row but we are quite optimistic. The reason for this is because we have a good feeling here with the bike and we will certainly be trying as hard as we can to get a good result tomorrow."
"We had a good session on race tyres and we found something in the bike and with the Bridgestone tyres," confirmed Vermeulen, who is thought to be around seventh fastest in race spec. "We seem to have a good pace and we improved quite a bit during the session and I think there is more to come. With the qualifiers we made good time today, but it was nowhere near the front guys. It shows that we still have some work to do with the qualifying tyres - as we have had in the last few races! I am really happy with my race set-up, but unfortunately I'm on the fourth row of the grid so I will need a good start. I think I'd better get my elbows sharpened to make my way through!"
"Loris was one of the quickest guys on race tyres today and Chris was right up there as well - they have both got the potential to do really well tomorrow," underlined team manager Paul Denning. "A lot of that will depend on the start and the first couple of laps."
